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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once Muzorewa had accepted the constitutional changes, the Patriotic Front offered a proposal for power sharing and the organization of security forces during the transitional period before new elections. Nkomo and Mugabe suggested an eight-man transitional governing council, composed of four guerrilla representatives plus four other members representing Britain and the present Salisbury government, with the British member acting as chairman. They also called for a joint Patriotic Front-Salisbury "transitional defense committee" to oversee the country's security force, and suggested a U.N. peacekeeping mission instead of the Commonwealth force favored by Carrington and Muzorewa...
...rare times that I totally disagreed with Nixon on a major foreign policy question. The Soviets had given us no help in Viet Nam. SALT was still substantially deadlocked. The Soviets had introduced combat personnel into the Middle East-the first such Soviet action in the postwar period...
...survivor. He had lived through the Stalin period, the Molotov era at the Foreign Ministry, and Khrushchev's roller coaster diplomacy. He had been Foreign Minister since...
...those of diamonds, pearls, stamps, art and antiques. In the past month silver has risen 65%, while gold has gone up 23%, partly because its relatively low price per ounce attracts speculators. The popularity of such tangible assets reflects a fast-deepening distrust of all paper currencies in a period of scary inflation. For some extreme pessimists, the phenomenon has raised the specter of the Weimar era in Germany in the early 1920s, when wheelbarrow loads of notes were needed to buy a loaf of bread. Essentially, the price of gold is an index of anxiety and a barometer...
President Carter declared last week that the strike against the Rock Island was causing severe economic disruption. This meant that he was able to invoke a 60-day cooling-off period under the National Labor Relations Act and send the strikers back to their jobs while a three-member emergency board reviews the dispute, although there were signs that the workers would refuse the order. At the same time, Carter requested that the Interstate Commerce Commission issue a "directed service order" telling other rail companies to operate Rock Island equipment over its rights-of-way. The grain millers' strike...